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As we hit mid-week, let’s do another edition of the notebook. NEWS CBS announced on Tuesday that it has hired former Colorado, Washington and UCLA football coach Rick Neuheisel as a studio analyst. He’ll join the cast of College Football Today before SEC games and Inside College Football on CBS Sports Network. Neuheisel had been […]

Time for another edition of the notebook. Let’s do this. NEWS NBC Sports has announced it will pick up radio coverage of horse racing’s Triple Crown. Over the past few years, radio coverage of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes has been piecemeal with various syndicators producing the races. Now, NBC which has […]

In the wake of Greg Anthony’s arrest in a prostitution sting in Washington, DC Friday, both CBS and Turner Sports have announced they have suspended the basketball analyst indefinitely. Both organizations have released statements today stating as such. Anthony was in the DC area to call the Michigan State-Maryland game later today on CBS with […]

Let’s do our notebook for this hump day. We begin with some late news that came out on Tuesday. NEWS It appears that new Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh will be involved in ESPN’s coverage of next Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship Game. Mark Snyder of the Detroit Free Press has the story. Fox Sports […]

Ok, the new media rights deals for the National Basketball Association have been announced. Let’s first start with Turner Sports which has maintained a relationship with the Association dating back to 1984. With this being its 30th year of the marriage, this new agreement will ensure that the NBA and Turner will stay together through […]

There are 53 games in the NBA on TNT lineup for this season. That includes 19 Thursday night doubleheaders. The schedule includes the opening night doubleheader and NBA All-Star Weekend in New York. This year’s Opening Night doubleheader will involve the Texas Triangle teams, Dallas at San Antonio with the ring ceremony for the Spurs […]

This coming from the Wall Street Journal today (behind the dreaded paywall). The NBA is looking to double its current rights fees from partners ESPN and Turner Sports. Combined, they pay $930 million annually. ESPN/ABC airs 75 regular season games and 25 postseason contests including the Finals. TNT airs 52 regular season games and another […]

Starting Monday, TNT will be the exclusive home of the 2014 NBA Western Conference Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs. TNT’s studio and game crews will be live from Oklahoma City and San Antonio throughout the series. TNT will air a one-hour NBA Tip-Off show before each game at 8 p.m. […]

Here’s the listing of the 35th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. They were handed out in New York tonight to an appreciative audience at the Frederick P. Rose Hall at the Time Warner Center. Overall, NBC led all networks with six Emmy Awards, Fox/HBO Sports/MLB Network won 5 and ESPN received four. In an upset, Bob […]

As we move into the NBA Playoffs Conference Semifinal Round, TNT began things with a doubleheader on Monday. It will continue with twinbills on Tuesday and Wednesday and then again with a single game on Sunday Sunday and another doubleheader on Monday. It’ll give way to ESPN/ESPN2/ABC on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoon. You’ll […]

You can’t get any better than having three Games 7 on one network like today. The NBA’s Network of Record, TNT has all three Conference Quarterfinal Games 7 starting at 5:30 p.m. ET and action will last through early Sunday morning on the East Coast. It all begins with Atlanta at Indiana followed by Memphis […]

As the 2014 NBA Playoffs get set to begin this weekend, TNT prepares once again to be the league’s Network of Record as it airs more than 40 playoff games from the first round all the way to the Western Conference Finals. TNT begins with three games this Sunday with Dallas at San Antonio at […]

That’s the spin from CBS/Turner. What they won’t tell you is that ratings and viewership are down, but that’s because TBS, TNT and truTV don’t have the penetration that CBS does. First things first. Let’s go over Saturday’s numbers. With the Final Four airing across three Turner platforms, the two games of the Final Four […]

Time for a long overdue sports media post. You get three columns-in-one. Nice concept for you. If you don’t know the name Sandy Grossman in the pantheon of sports television, you should. He was the “A” director on the NFL on CBS and Fox, the NBA on CBS, the NHL on Fox and directed two […]

We’re entering a brave new world beginning this year. You have gotten used to having TBS, TNT and truTV join CBS in televising the NCAA Tournament over the last four seasons. Up until this year, CBS had been airing the Final Four and National Championship Game without interruption since 1982. That changes this year as […]

The nominees are out. A few interesting developments for this year’s Emmys. In the play-by-play category, Al Michaels is noticeably absent. Marv Albert, Mike Breen, Joe Buck, Bob Costas (?) and Mike Emrick are nominees. I guess the Academy decided to put Bob in this category in addition to his customary Studio Host nomination. For […]

Catching up on a couple of things on this Monday night. The first week of the NCAA Tournament went swimmingly well for the CBS/Turner consortium. Record ratings and record viewership has steered the first six days of games for the CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV combo. For the first six days, CBS/Turner averaged a 5.9/13 […]

The NCAA Tournament appears to have caught on with fans. When viewership goes up three straight days, you have a trend. For Saturday’s 3rd round action which had an afternoon of three bad games, but then an evening of barnburners, CBS/Turner averaged 10 million total viewers for the eight games which was the best in […]

Once again, CBS/Turner saw some record numbers for the NCAA Tournament. yesterday’s numbers were the best for the opening Friday of the tournament dating back to 1991 when CBS took over the full rights for March Madness. The four telecast windows averaged 8.4 million viewers which is the highest since 1991. CBS/Turner saw a combined […]